Jung Society of Atlanta

David H. Rosen, M.D.

Transforming Depression:
Healing the Soul Through Creativity
Egocide, Symbolic Death, & New Life—Lecture

November 13, Friday Lecture 7:30 pm
members: $20; non-members $25; students $10

The lecture will cover: understanding depression and the quest for meaning, knowing suicide and its creative potential, and egocide and transformation (an innovative Jungian humanistic therapeutic paradigm). Egocide and transformation entails healing depressive and suicidal states through the creative technique of active imagination. In other words, the symbolic death of the destructive ego (shadow) and false self as well as subsequent creative expressions lead to the birth of the true self.

Dr. Rosen will also talk about crisis points such as adolescence, mid-life, divorce, and loss of a loved one and how egocide can help. In addition, this format will allow for a brief presentation of an actual case (a depressed and suicidal patient). Participants will be introduced to how the egocide and transformation model is applied. The patient, guided by the therapist, analyzes to death or symbolically kills negative aspects of the ego and shadow (egocide and shadowcide) and the related depressive and suicidal state is transformed through the creative arts. Suicide is literally a dead end, whereas egocide involves a symbolic death and rebirth experience. Egocide and transformation allows the suffering melancholic individual to live, heal the soul through creativity, and find meaning in life.

Transforming Depression:
Healing the Soul Through Creativity
Egocide, Symbolic Death, & New Life—Workshop

November 14, Saturday Workshop 10:00am - 5:00pm
members: $60; non-members $70; students $50

(includes lecture if paid before lecture)

The workshop will be experiential and involve the exploration of transforming depression and healing the soul through creativity. This will be accomplished through active imagination. After a brief meditation, participants will produce art work such as drawing mandalas, and journaling involving psychological, mythical, and symbolic imagery.

David H. Rosen, M.D., a Jungian Analyst, is the holder of the McMillan Professorship in Analytical Psychology, Professor of Humanities in Medicine, and Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Science at Texas A&M University. He is the author of over ninety scholarly articles and eight books including The Healing Spirit of Haiku, co-authored with Joel Weishaus; Transforming Depression: Healing the Soul Through Creativity; Evolution of the Psyche, co-authored with Michael Luebbert; The Tao of Jung: The Way of Integrity . See his website for more information: http://people.tamu.edu/~David-Rosen/